Sign in

Jake

@jakeythesnakey.bsky.social
1.1K followers 1.4K following 8.2K posts

“We should all emulate the virtues of the rattle snake: strong communication and good follow through” PDX 13 month year evangelist Lobbyist Gym I work in politics, my views/posts are my own and do not reflect my employer’s Building Code/Housing/HVAC nerd

PostsRepliesMedia
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 8m
Lotta problems in Portland have “the cops have been engaged in a 6-year long politically motivated work slowdown” as a fairly major component
361
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11h
School Closure Plan A moves our family from Lewis Elementary to Duniway Elementary, which is only 1 block further away from us. Can't say I hate that!
000
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 13h
Is there a name for the fallacy where, inevitably, people look at a gaping wound of a budget, a $100,000,000 arrear, and say “just gotta cut the salary of those fat cats at the top, why the superintendent is making 400k/yr!” ???
130
Reposted by Jake
Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tattling to your boss because you said it would be cool if Wile E. Coyote dropped an anvil on me.
091
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In one of my professional life’s grimmest ironies, my single most professional, competent, and committed cadre of volunteers all live in Nebraska, where they can do fuck-all. Move to Wisconsin!
020
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
R/everyday everydaycarry snd and r/malesurvivingspace and r/malelivingspace have done more to radicalize me against guns and gaming than anything else. So many men who clearly have *nothing* but are pouring money into the loneliest, least fuckable hobbies
2162
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
First quarter: idk this doesn’t look like a team that’s making the playoffs, I might turn this off 2nd quarter onwards: belt to ass, Super Bowl repeat is a lock
020
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Myers missing that FG broke his streak at 69. Nice.
020
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ways I know my wife is a top tier schemer: she once worked on a senate campaign as a fundraiser and used her NGPvan access to code herself as “never contact” She literally gets no calls or texts to this day.
0200
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The carbon footprint of the advertising industry is, I think, underdiscussed in the discourse and literature. I am certain i received >100lb of junk mail per year. The ROI vs GHG emissions has got to be atrocious.
1130
Reposted by Jake
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 01/10/2026
#Recall: Gazelle USA Recalls Urban Arrow Cargo Electric Bikes; The front bolt in the seat post clamping mechanism can break, causing the seat to become loose, posing a fall hazard. Get repair. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2027...
Recalled electric bikes.
9201126
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If we’re gunna Kotek doom post, we gotta be real that if she loses it’s not because she was not [insert your favored politics here], it’s because the voters want homeless people thrown in jail and lower taxes
4151
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol. Lmao, even.
060
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This summer themed linen suit is not exactly giving the right vibe for the nor easter that’s blowing thru, but it’s my wedding so no one can stop me
130
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m in a fairly conservative line of work, I need to wear a suit and tie often, my interviews have all been very formal. Way more people know and care about the small things than you think. Class signaling is part of it, but a lot of it is that some times there is just a Correct way to do things.
1111
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The more I sit with it, Bob’s Burgers not being on the NYT top 100 shows list is a massive omission
140
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think the PNW endorsements are fine. My focus has been elsewhere, so it’s good to know that they think Clark will be good on housing.
030
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump ever learning a Single Thing about building codes has always been a defcon 1 fear of mine
010
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In-laws don’t believe in AC or heat for woo-woo hippie reasons, so the only comfortable time to visit them is Sept. To them, I simply am the in-law that is a giant baby and insists on building a fire every morning.
020
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the crux of it in my social circles. My sister is a ceramicist, tf does she need AI for? I’d expand it beyond “non traditional” tho. The nurses I know don’t need AI. The teachers I know hate ai. It’s us computer touchers who can get productivity gains from it, for pleasure or profit
130
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don’t pretend that my super athletic super cool Ultimate Frisbee experience gives me much insight into the mind of an NFL athlete, but I do appreciate how whenever a receiver bricks a catch they look at their hands like “how dare you betray me!” just like we do
010
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I do not care for this chud looking McBride. Sus eyes.
000
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Let me just not cover RB1 JSN at all, it will be fine.” -Arizona, probably
000
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If I had 5000$ to blow I’d send anti-Novick mailers to registered republicans in D3 and emphasize how much he voted with DSA for the last two years.
040
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Okay so that sneaker ad was either intentionally malicious or it involved a Chernobyl level series of procedural failures
110
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I fly transcon ~8 times per year and I *never* get tired of watching the full nation pass below me through the window.
040
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I put every single big govt expense in units of “Cleveland High Schools” now. Iran costs a CHS every two days.
190
Reposted by Jake
Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sometimes you gotta say something! Rare Merc op-ed on the recent cop tweet kerfuffle:
712518
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Biden Keynesian triumph was debt financing fiscal stimulus that pulled the nation back from the brink of a genuinely nasty recession, juiced the social safety net, saved hundreds of thousands of jobs, and even with inflation raised wages. The lesson everyone learned was to Never Do This Again.
270
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a wild saga to watch, having gone to hs/college in the PNW in the early 20-teens and late aughts. I saw Macklemore for the first time in a shitty basement venue that was so hot my friend passed out from heat exhaustion. anyway, ‘And We Danced’ is his best song
131
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bro what did you think the structure was made of?? Vibes???
080
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think the irl moderate position on the Portland police is basically “I’m not an ACAB guy but they seem awful at their jobs and the one time last year I had to call them they were super unhelpful”
2201
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Talking my mom out of voting for Torres. I am doing the lords works in the family group chat
2290
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The analogy I keep coming back to: a nuclear reactor is melting down, nothing is working to save it. In a last ditch effort, a tech shoots at control rods with a shotgun. It kinda works, the runaway slows. Now, no safety guide or forecast will ever account for the “shotgun the reactor” strategy
200
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I know like 80% of memes come from 4chan and therefore have fascistic origins, but the “nothing ever happens” wojack is specifically based on Patrick Crusius, a racist mass murderer who carried out the El Paso shooting. I wish people wouldn’t use this one.
110
Reposted by Jake
Terry J. Harris @trryjhrrs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A quick 🧵 on this topic. The transition team struggled with understanding that district-based constituent services would be a thing Councilors would need to do, and it would need to be funded in the new government. So here we are -- it *IS* funded, just unofficially through office budgets.
2286
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So what I’m seeing is that this place is going to get wildly more unhinged as we get closer to the midterms and 2028, like borderline unusable. Get a fucking grip.
130
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The pipes that take our waste to the main sewer? Literally made out of cardboard. They are 40 years past their Best By date and will cost 10k-20k to replace when they catastrophically fail someday
161
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
1) the bullhorn speech is an all time piece of presidential oration 2) idk I just have seen *so much* death since 9/11 that it’s hard to act like this is still some incredible national tragedy. How much longer till we treat it like Pearl Harbor, something in history rather than the present?
232
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“All PI offense” - more and more people are saying it
000
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you followed me because I post about Portland/politics/building code stuff, I regret to inform you that once a week for the next 6 months this will also be a Seahawks Football account.
020
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
010
Reposted by Jake
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Insane that there is no emergency session so Salem can throw a few million dollars at putting a drop box on every corner in the state
271
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Absolutely wild that I make more money than than the Governor of Oregon. We literally need to triple the Governor’s $98,600 salary. A <$100k salary to be the CEO of a $130 billion organization with 40,000 employees is insanity.
8302
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One of the most cursed outcomes I can think of is that Trump manages to ratfuck the election and Reps hold a trifecta, but the Dems win Texas and Alaska
010
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Warrior, Cleric, Paladin, Rogue
010
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Data Center Coalition’s* FAQ is so fucking funny. Q: “are data centers loud?” A: “They don’t literally cause hearing damage :) “
131
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Is this a fair read? council election is to see if peacocks or modsquad can pick up a seat. Morillo, Novick, and Clark are safe. Green, TKL, and Zim all vulnerable Torres is the main mod challenger in D3. Evenstar is the main prog challenger in D4. Everyone else looks different shades of unserious
770
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Not a fan. 2% of the general fund, reoccurring yearly, would make this one of the largest participatory budget programs in the USA. It would be half the size of New York’s! And its funding scheme is, at best, guaranteed to cause issues.
191
Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We don’t talk enough about what a cultural phenomenon Prison Break was
000